CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – Golf rarely produces shutouts but it happened Saturday at Quail Hollow. The par-4 first hole did not surrender a birdie to any of the 75 players who made the 36-hole cut. Of course, some may quibble with the notion of calling a 522-yard dogleg a par-4…

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – Seve’s famous escape from a bunker during the 1983 Ryder Cup? The shot he played with a 3 wood scarcely touching any sand on the 18th hole of his match against Fuzzy Zoeller? I saw that. I was standing right behind it, perhaps 50 feet away,…

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA | If you’re wondering, Rory McIlroy isn’t the most successful professional golfer at the Quail Hollow Club. The argument can be made that Tom Weiskopf was the first PGA Tour player to turn Quail Hollow into his personal playground. Before the Wells Fargo Championship, there was the…

As we approach the year’s final major, let’s take a look into some of the featured groups set to tee it up at Quail Hollow for the 99th PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy-Rickie Fowler-Jon Rahm McIlroy and Fowler earned their first PGA Tour victories at Quail Hollow and have impressive track…

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland speaks ot the media in a press conference during a preview day of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club. (Photo credit: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

AKRON, OHIO – Boiled down to its simplest form, Rory McIlroy ended his nine-year working relationship with caddie J.P. Fitzgerald because it was time. Player-caddie relationships aren’t forever – Phil Mickelson and Jim “Bones” Mackay are evidence of that – and McIlroy made the difficult decision to cut Fitzgerald loose…

By now, all the usual spin will probably have been put on the situation to say that the parting of ways between Rory McIlroy and JP Fitzgerald, his caddie of nine years, was amicable. In fairness, that is maybe the only way to proceed when the two of them will…